Account-book.



W. H. MAXWELL.

ACCOUNT BOOK.

APPLICATION FILED MAYIG, 1910.

1,089,364, Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

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WALTER H. MAXWELL, 0F CINCINNATI, OHIO.

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To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, VVALTER H. MAXWELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Account-Books, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to account books, and the objects of my improvements are to provide a book which may be used in the ordinary manner or which may be changed in whole or in part to be used for continuous footings; to provide a book wherein the leaves may be conveniently assembled, bound and neatly trimmed, or used in a loose leaf binder and to provide such construction and assemblage of parts as to make the book peculiarly suited for the purposes intended. These objects are attained in the following described manner as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an account book embodying my improvement and opened to show adjacent pages, and Fig. 2 shows the next adjacent pages of the same book.

In the drawings, 1, 2, 3, 4i and 5 represent successive leaves of an account book having the pages similarly ruled into transverse spaces and also into vertical columns for numerical accounts, the said columns on each page being in alinement or registration with the same columns on the corresponding pages of the other leaves. Each leaf may be creased or perforated across the same near the top on the line 6 and, if desired from said line to the top of the leaf on line 6, to facilitate either the folding or removal of the top or heading portion 7 of the leaf. Each leaf may also be creased or perforated across the same near the bottom on line 8 and, if desired, from said line to the bottom of the leaf on line 8 to facilitate either the folding or the removal of the bottom portion 9 thereof. These creased or perforated lines do not interfere with the use of the book in the ordinary manner nor with its being conveniently bound and neatly trimmed, or used in a loose leaf binder with each alternate leaf creased or perforated one near the top the other near the bottom.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 16, 1910.

Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

Serial No. 561,768.

The top portion of a number of alternate leaves and the bottom portion of the intervening leaves may be either folded or entirely removed for adapting the book to use for continuous footings as shown in the drawings. In Fig. 1 the absence of the top portion of leaf 2 exposes the sum 14 at the top of the column of the corresponding page of the leaf 1 next preceding and it may be included in the footings 15 on the unremoved bottom portion of said leaf 2. The absence of the bottom portion of leaf 8 permits the sum 16 of the column thereon to be placed directly on the corresponding page of the u'nremoved bottom portion of the succeeding leaf at when leaf 3 is turned as shown in Fig. 2. The said footing 15 may be included in the sum 17 of the corresponding column and placed on the unremoved top portion of said leaf and the footing 16 may be included in the sum 18 of the corresponding column and placed on the corresponding page of the unremoved. top portion of leaf 5, etc.

By placing the sums of the columns of adjacent pages at the bottom they may be exposed and included in the sum of corr sponding columns on succeeding pages placed at the top, whereby the liability of error by repeating the totals in forwarding them to corresponding columns on succeed-- ing pages is avoided.

At the terminal of any stated period as a week or month, the pages of several leaves may be used for computations or other entries without either of their end portions being folded or removed, and in starting the next continuous footings the top or bottom portion as desired of the succeeding leaves may be alternately folded or removed to any number required. The unused portion of the book presents an unyielding surface until the end portion of the leaves are removed.

Having fully described my improvements, what I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is An account book comprising leaves having corresponding pages similarly ruled into first mentioned weakened lines, all substanverltical polumns and horizontal spaces, illllld tially as and for the purpose set forth. eaei leai havin weakened lines aeross t e same near the t dp and near the bottom, re- WALTER MAXWELL spectively, and also having other vertical Witnesses:

weakened lines extending to the ends of the ALBERT DIEM,

leaves from the inner end portion of said OGDEN MEADER, Jr.

copiel of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

